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Title | Complete Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) | Height | 198 mm |
Author | Charles Dickens | Width | 129 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9781853267345 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | 1853267341 | Spine Width | 16 mm |
Publisher | Wordsworth Classics | Pages | 336 |
Edition | Availability | In Stock |

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Complete Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol , the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity.